Getting Started on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

To use Cloudera Director on AWS, you create an environment in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), start an instance in AWS to run Cloudera Director, and create a secure
connection. This section describes the steps for each of these tasks.

Important:

Cloudera Director supports Spot instances. Spot instances are virtual machines that have a lower cost but are subject to reclamation at any time by AWS. Because of the possibility of
interruption, Cloudera recommends that you use Spot instances only for worker roles in a cluster, not for master or gateway roles. Cloudera Director only supports Spot instances for CentOS.